Sentences with word «macguffin»

The two are attempting to take over the world by stealing the all - powerful Triforce, a magical MacGuffin of power, wisdom, and courage that plays a leading role in every Zelda game.

The Stones have played minor roles as MacGuffins in many Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, and those assorted plot threads are all building up to Avengers: Infinity War, a film in which the ownership and location of the Infinity Stones will become vital to the safety of the Universe.

They've served as the major MacGuffins for a lot of the films, but may be hard for most viewers to distinguish.

So, that's... vague, but all you need to know is there are six in total and they have been popping up as MacGuffins in the MCU since before the Avengers first assembled.

The depth of the worldbuilding in Final Fantasy XII is unrivaled within the series: the plot hinges on detailed histories of several countries, political bureaucracy, military hierarchies, and several different types of magical MacGuffins.

One more improvement on MCU's formula: the Infinity Stones aren't MacGuffins anymore.

The film does temporarily fall into the trap of playing out like a video game considering the task of moving from one Horcrux to another: Items that are nothing more than MacGuffins at their most basic level (see: «Sucker Punch «-RRB-.

Determined to change her fate, Merida defies an age - old custom sacred to the unruly and uproarious lords of the land: massive Lord MacGuffin (voice of Kevin McKidd), surly Lord Macintosh (voice of Craig Ferguson) and cantankerous Lord Dingwall (voice of Robbie Coltrane), unleashing chaos in the kingdom.

Fortunately for all involved, the local professor has invented a device known as the Demon Hand — an absurdly useful MacGuffin which allows Slayers a host of new options such as permanently smashing the limbs off enemies, acting as a grappling hook, or closing poisonous rifts whenever they're located.

As The Observer says, «If MacGuffin does take off, mining this data for insights into human attention might be one of the smartest things any publisher has done in some time.»

Pokémon are not just macguffins to be captured, they are citizens of the city.

«Meeting MacGuffin» continues the tale which began in a post-apocalyptic future where a new breed, a group of scientists called the Clothespin Freaks, are reassembling the fragmented remnants of humanity in order to give humanity a second chance to restore balance to the decimated world.

It may be piled with MacGuffins, magic crystals, red - skinned demi - Gods and psychic asides, but at the heart of «Ultron» is a simple, even derivative plot about overweening ambition and technology run amok.

too much CGI mayhem, inconsistent abilities, over-reliance on MacGuffins, generally disposable villains, formulaic stories, the knowledge that no - one important is likely to die permanently, too many quips, too much muchness..

Since the movie needed an all - powerful Macguffin anyway, he said it made perfect sense to just use the Cosmic Cube, which had already been set up in Thor, while the presence of a young Howard Stark as a key ally for Cap brings in what Markus could only describe as «that Tony Starkness.»

Kevin McKidd is even able to utilise his home, Doric, dialect as Young MacGuffin, which leads to hilarious and bamboozling attempts at conversation.

April 16, 2018 • They're the major MacGuffins of the Marvel Cinematic Universe — but there's a lot of them, and you need a scorecard to keep track of which does what.

The movie is set to take place between Revenge Of The Sith and A New Hope, with a crew of rebels working to steal the Death Star plans that act as the central MacGuffin in the original Star Wars.

He's Midnight Special's emotional core and plot MacGuffin wrapped into one whole, a seemingly alien child plagued with all kinds of peculiar powers he can't control.

They are MacGuffins only, of no importance whatsoever, except to the extent they provide opportunities for Drama as the Hero fights in favor of them.»

Call them the Mighty Marvel Movie MacGuffins.

Characters have chased MacGuffins across the cosmos, wasting two thirds of the film getting from one place to another, and not actually wrestling with their inner demons.

The use of flashbacks, via a series of videotapes shot before Jessabelle was born, and placed throughout the narrative like Hitchcockian MacGuffins, reveal the father — now a drunk prone to displays of anger — as a happy and prosperous guy with a beautiful wife.

It is a huge, intricate cake that shows Thanos, rendered in perfect detail, holding two Infinity Stones (the primary MacGuffins in Marvel Cinematic Universe) in both arms.

Jim Hinks explains, «Publishers have always sought new ways to connect readers and writers, and that's what MacGuffin is all about.

What was striking to me about Amour was how much it looks like other Haneke films — with the same macguffins, the same uneasy tracking shots — and yet how different it feels.

Future big bad Thanos and the franchise's distracting MacGuffins, otherwise known as the Infinity Stones, were relegated to the end credits of Ragnarok.

The problem is, «12 Monkeys» tends to prioritize a series of MacGuffins over attempts to deepen its characters and their relationships.

He puts Lara through her paces to help him find the lost MacGuffin, something consistently done better in the «Indiana Jones» films.

It chases its own MacGuffin.

This is the first Final Fantasy that ditches the crystals in favor of other MacGuffins, namely the three statues.

Boston - based indie developer Macguffin Games thinks the idea is gold and has already launched a public beta on Facebook, releasing regular updates that add dueling with friends and more, but it's looking to raise funds in order to continue development.

Thus, the passage of a law or enactment of a plan gets treated as the exciting climax to the struggle... and all the follow - through is just the boring stuff that will work itself out after the credits roll (while our heroes head off to chase a new MacGuffin).

The product comes in two designs, DOC MacGuffins and Minie mouse that every girl loves to wear.

The typical Hitchcock MacGuffin was the question: Why do the strange attacks occur?

We also get a zombies - on - a-plane episode and a tense foray into the terrain of «The Stand» or «The Andromeda Strain» in a zombie - infested medical laboratory where Gerry and a buzz - cut, one - handed female Israeli soldier (the terrific Daniella Kertesz) must search for the highly implausible secret MacGuffin that will fix everything.

By the time I reached the conclusion of the architecturally scaled final tome, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, with its multiplying MacGuffins — seven Horcruxes, three Deathly Hallows, two turtle doves — I confess I was glad to be done.

Particularly fun is a game of keep - away with a Fabergé egg, the crew tearing around a mansion passing off this stolen MacGuffin as the camera follows at a gleeful, dizzying zip.

Her newly appointed henchman Skurge (Karl Urban) is equally flat, while the flaming MacGuffin we meet at the start of the film is just same - old CGI nonsense.

Even Thor seems a bit nonplussed by the big story of all these movies, referring to the convenient MacGuffins that keep showing up in this franchise as «colorful, glowing Infinity Stone things.»

To achieve that, he wielded the Infinity Gauntlet, and the six infinity stones (Marvel's grand MacGuffin) to simply wish them away.

Bahrani renders reading passive without any sense of irony, reducing books to a bland MacGuffin.

Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin.

The mystical MacGuffins, the buried temples, the gun - waving mortal danger.

Thanos is on a quest to collect all six of the Infinity Stones, one of the longest - running MacGuffins in movie history.

There's a mystery in play — a missing girl, a celluloid MacGuffin, an auto - industry conspiracy — but it's all bedrock for Gosling, the Inspector Clouseau answer to L.A. Confidential, and Crowe, a bruiser straight man who scores just as many laughs, to parade across.

Thanos's goal is to assemble the six Infinity Stones, super-powerful MacGuffins that have served as individual plot drivers for a decade of Marvel films to date.

There's the diminishing returns of seeing the exact same procedure of some new mythical MacGuffin that suddenly every pirate on the seas is determined to get.

In an interview in August, actor Kevin McKidd (Trainspotting, Kingdom of Heaven) spoke about how he voices both the young and old MacGuffins.